A police officer who was filmed smashing the windscreen of a car in a video that went viral appears to have have been captured in new footage of a separate incident in which a black moped rider accuses him of discrimination.
The Metropolitan police began an investigation after dramatic footage emerged at the weekend that appeared to show a police officer attacking a car after the driver refused to get out.
The clip, widely shared on social media, shows what appears to be a police officer – filmed from the position of the driver – repeatedly telling him to “get out of the car,” adding: “You’re not allowed to drive it.”
In the footage, which was shared on Saturday by a former member of the music group So Solid Crew, the officer then appears to lose his temper yelling, kicking and pulling at the car door, trying to open it. He then reaches for his baton and starts hammering the window with it. The incident has been referred to the police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC).
The new footage was filmed by Kyle Adair-Whyte, who came forward after the other video appeared and has been released by 4Front media, the media arm of a project working for and with young Londoners. He believes that the same officer stopped him on 4 September after seeing him pushing his broken-down moped along the road and accused him of being a thief.
Adair-Whyte, 24, who says he is a part-time courier and student in footage accompanying that of the incident, said that he was wearing his dress shoes at the time and was on the way to a friend’s house.
The officer can be heard telling him that he was being stopped because he was walking along the road with a moped that was “all smashed up”.
Adair-Whyte replies by asking: “How do you deem it not roadworthy? I wasn’t driving. The engine wasn’t on so it doesn’t matter if it was not roadworthy. I was just pushing it along.”
He adds: “I don’t understand. You just stopped me through discrimination. You stopped me because you saw a damaged bike.”
The officer can be heard telling him: “No, I’ve stopped you because I’ve seen you pushing a moped along the road and I wanted to make sure that you hadn’t just picked it up from somewhere.
“Having stopped you I have become more suspicious because I have seen the state of the moped and I suspect it might be involved in moped-enabled snatches. At the moment you are staying here while I confirm or allay my suspicions.”
A spokesman for the Metropolitan police said on Monday that it was aware of the second video, which appeared on social media, and that its contents were being assessed.
